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For decades, Allentown Industries and similar businesses have provided a place for the developmentally disabled to work. That may be coming to an end as the government is slowly shutting the sheltered workshops in order to mainstream employees. The question remains when that happens, will the disabled be employed somewhere else, or will they be sitting at home? Here, Louis DiPasquale puts sale stickers on Mentholatum eye drop boxes, Tuesday, April 15, 2014. (Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News)